"This is... a Machine Girl? You, you you you! You actually... contracted a Machine Girl?"
Inside the academy's Mecha bay, a pink-haired girl stood with her hands on her hips, her eyes wide, scanning Lightning up and down, full of disbelief. She glared at Su Li, who was holding his waist, her finger practically wanting to poke his forehead.
"If your Zhang Changping can contract you, why can't I contract a Machine Girl?"
"Are you, are you lying to build a persona, or did you catch something on her? Otherwise, how could a pervert like you actually contract a Machine Girl?"
"Shield, you need to be responsible for what you say. How am I a pervert?"
Su Li stood in front of Lightning, his face flushed as he faced the girl's questioning. Heaven and earth bear witness, he just smelled the Mecha oil, how did he inexplicably become a pervert?
As a Pilot, what's wrong with smelling Mecha oil?
"Lightning, don't listen to her nonsense, I'm not a pervert!"
"Heh!" Shield Elder 03 let out a disdainful snort, her lips slightly twitching: "You're not a pervert? Go ask around the academy, out of the more than a hundred Machine Girls in the academy, which one wasn't on high alert when you were debugging and maintaining her?"
"You're slandering me! If you really think I'm a pervert, you don't have to ask me to debug your Mecha. Don't come to me every day to debug your Mecha and then badmouth me behind your back!"
"You!"
"Me what me, did I say something wrong?"
Su Li widened his eyes, looking at the girl in front of him. Her chest wasn't big, but her temper was quite large, truly a case of 'poor chest, evil heart'. Not only that, she was also extremely stingy. He had already debugged her Mecha three times, let alone letting him Pilot it, he didn't even know what her cockpit looked like.
"Sister, tell me the truth, did he get a hold of something on you? Don't be afraid to say it, if he dares to threaten you, I'll report him directly."
Lightning looked at the somewhat aggressive Shield in front of her and instinctively grabbed Su Li in front of her, pulling him behind her.
"No! I don't have anything on the Pilot. On the contrary, I am very grateful that he was able to sign a contract with me. So, please be careful with your words and actions, and do not insult my Pilot's character."
"Pilot? You said he's your Pilot? He only got his Pilot license less than a week ago! You must have been tricked!"
The pink-haired Shield looked at Lightning in front of her, her eyes widening in surprise: "And this sister, I'm thinking of you! You must not know what kind of person he is! Let me tell you, he's a pervert who touches Machine Girls!"
"Me, didn't I just touch your external armor? How else can I maintain and debug them without touching? Do you think I'm a god?"
Su Li poked his head out from behind Lightning. Her height of over 1.8 meters with high heels gave him a great sense of security.
"Was that a proper touch? Your eyes were practically glowing! You wait, I'm not arguing with you here, you wait until I go out and get people!"
She stomped her foot and walked out angrily. Before leaving, she didn't forget to turn back and glare at Su Li.
Su Li watched her leave until she was far away, then pouted and walked to the end of the Mecha bay. Before, he didn't have a Machine Girl, so he maintained and debugged other people's Machine Girls to earn some hard-earned money. But now that he had his own Machine Girl, he would stay as far away as possible from that flock of 'orioles and swallows'. Debugging Mecha again wasn't impossible, but he'd need more money!
The Mecha bay was piled high with all kinds of discarded parts. Barrels of various oils were stacked in the corner. A rack tens of meters high stood in the center of the Mecha bay, empty except for a dozen or so mechanical arms hanging there, shimmering with a metallic luster.
Su Li walked to the computer and typed a few keys on the keyboard.
With a creaking sound, the massive mechanical arms slowly unfolded, assuming a posture ready for a Mecha to enter the bay.
He tilted his chin towards Lightning, then walked into the Mecha bay's partition by himself and changed into oil-stained work clothes.
When he came out, Lightning had already completed her deployment and was standing on the maintenance rack.
Su Li endured the pain in his waist, put on a waist support for himself, then walked to the computer, controlling the mechanical arms to input commands, and began routine maintenance on Lightning.
The sharp-angled red armor reflected streaks of fluorescent light under the illumination, making it impossible to look away once you saw it.
He carried a large wrench, approached Lightning, and couldn't help but reach out and touch her.
The cold armor seemed to gain temperature at this moment. Perhaps because of the contract, touching the external armor felt like touching a part of his own body.
He didn't even need to inspect it bit by bit; he could intuitively feel where the Mecha's problem was.
Combined with his own system, he could even clearly sense the position of every single screw.
"So that's how it is!"
He muttered to himself, and the composition and parameters of the entire Mecha instantly appeared in his mind. Except for the Machine Girl's own consciousness which he couldn't analyze, the entire Mecha was instantly disassembled into one part after another in his eyes, and then instantly reassembled in his mind.
He was originally unsure about the extent of the damage to the waist sensor component and wanted to disassemble and debug the whole thing. But with the system combined with this feeling, he directly pinpointed the problem location. This saved him at least half a day.
Lightning silently watched her Pilot, originally thinking that the debugging and maintenance work he mentioned was handled by a dedicated logistics team. But unexpectedly, in the entire Mecha bay, counting everyone, there was only Su Li himself.
What kind of monster is her Pilot? He can even debug and repair Mecha?
Excellent piloting skills, superb reaction ability. The movements he made while piloting her, she hadn't even heard of them, let alone seen them.
And now, he was exploring her external armor inch by inch, occasionally tapping it with his fingers, and even lying on it to listen.
Watching him grope all over her body. For a moment, she suddenly had a feeling that she had been stripped bare, unable to hide any secrets.
Was it an illusion?
She looked at the obsession in Su Li's eyes and sighed slightly in her heart.
No wonder other Machine Girls would think he was a pervert. Given how he looked right now, it was already restraint that others hadn't beaten him into a state where he couldn't take care of himself.
What decent person would hug a Mecha and rub it up and down with glowing eyes?
Even the external armor is part of the Machine Girl herself, naturally connected to the Machine Girl's senses.
That feeling was like Su Li lecherously rubbing her leg through leather pants.
In the cockpit, the half-prone Lightning's pretty face was getting redder and redder.
Su Li leaned into the inner side of the Mecha's thigh and immediately smelled a scent mixed with rust. He frowned, raised the microcomputer on his arm, and controlled the mechanical arm to open the oil drain port.
Lightning bit her teeth tightly, afraid she might let out a low moan if she couldn't hold back.
The red Mecha, while Su Li wasn't paying attention, tightly gripped the racks on both sides with her hands.
Lightning, who had never had her Mecha oil changed, was starting to lose control.
......
Nan City Hongda Arena.
Several managers gathered in the arena, looking at the dents on the ground cut by a heavy sword, exchanging glances.
"What does the surveillance say? Was this cut mark really made by a heavy sword?"
"No surveillance! The surveillance equipment was undergoing routine maintenance this evening, so it didn't capture which Mecha it was."
"Today, I remember it was lightning r5's farewell match. Did she occupy the arena in the afternoon?"
"This... is this possible?"
Several people looked at each other, then back at each other, and shook their heads in unison.
A slash with such power could only be done by an S-Class Mecha. Could it be that in a small place like Nan City, an S-Class Mecha actually appeared? Wouldn't that mean there's also an S-Class Pilot!
As for Lightning doing it, no one present considered that possibility.
"Let's report it to the boss! If an S-Class Pilot really appeared, our bonus this month is secured."
Everyone nodded excitedly, harboring a strong desire for the bonus, and one person stepped forward to contact the boss.
At the edge of the arena, a black-haired girl stood before the gap created by Lightning's impact, carefully examining the grass in front of her. As she watched, she became engrossed, standing in place, and began to imitate the scene in her imagination.
Trying again and again, in just three to five minutes, she perfectly imitated Lightning's motion of getting up and spinning.
The girl's eyes shone brightly.
What kind of technique is this?
Why can a simple act of getting up have so many variations? Could such piloting skills truly belong to those S-Class Pilots active in major arenas?
No!
She had a feeling in her heart. Even an S-Class Pilot couldn't perform such movements.
With a hint of curiosity, she followed the path Lightning had sped along, and the further she went, the more excited she became.
Unlike the usual way Mecha move with their legs parallel.
The Mecha piloted by this mysterious Pilot actually moved with alternating legs. This, isn't this the same as how humans walk? Can a behemoth like a Mecha also do this?
How did he do it? Wouldn't he lose his balance?
What kind of Machine Girl is his Machine Girl, and what kind of core does she have? How much computing power does it take to achieve this?
The black-haired girl lightly bit her lips.
I really want to deploy!
Especially after seeing these marks, she really wanted to deploy herself and try it out personally.